A spark smolders within every fading ember. Awaiting the right moment to reignite. To blaze into an inferno.
Eighteen-year-old Sadie's fiery ambitions have faded to embers. Her dreams of escaping the shackles of her conventional life and seeking heroic adventures have been doused by an arranged marriage. Women in 1914 were expected to be Helen of Troy, not Achilles. Doomed to the life of obscurity she always feared, Sadie takes a chance on an anonymous note-and finds a mirror portal to Arw, the parallel world featured in her shunned great-grandfather's book.
But when she steps through, the portal closes behind her.
Cut off from her brother Connor and stuck with Tristan, the enigmatic man sent to guide her to Arw, Sadie learns it will take more than trading the mundane for the magical to reignite the embers of her heart. Controversial fire and forbidden celestial magics threaten to consume her, layered secrets mask friend from foe, and she's caught in a civil war she inadvertently accelerated. Walking through that portal should have been freeing. Empowering. So why did she feel more trapped?
Convinced his sister is gone forever, Connor enlists in a war he doesn't believe in. Before long, he uncovers a dark conspiracy rooted in emerging electrical science.
When her enemies offer her the chance to return home, Sadie discovers not even her wild imagination has prepared her for the sobering reality of what happens when you play with fire.
A SPARK FROM EMBERS is The Ten Thousand Doors of January meets the Narnia series, except if Lucy had gone through the wardrobe alone, leaving Edmund to enlist and battle the demons of his inner Witch.